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At 100, she’s still going strong running Buffalo laundry

For Felimina Rotundo, work may be the elixir of life. At 100, she gets up and goes to work almost every day in Buffalo, New York. And not just part-time or even banker's hours. Minnie, as she's known to family and friends, puts in an 11-hour

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Mohammed’s Journey: A Syrian’s long quest for a normal life

AT THE SERBIAN-HUNGARIAN BORDER (AP) — At the edge of a Balkan vineyard, Mohammed al-Haj lay down under a tree to collect his thoughts. Come nightfall, he and the other Syrians with him would make a run for it, past the fence of chain-link and barbed wire being built along the

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Immigrants provide boon, challenges to Worcester, study shows

WORCESTER – This city of factories, triple-deckers and single-family homes tucked around seven hills, counts almost 38,000 foreign-born residents, more than any other Gateway City in the Bay State, according to a new study from University of Massachusetts researchers. The study shows that many of the city's immigrants